Live! At The Star Club Hamburg Germany


Live At The Star Club

Hamburg Germany, 1962



(NOTE: For this album, no songwriting credits will be given)

  1. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)

  2. Roll Over Beethoven

  3. Hippy Hippy Shake

  4. Sweet Little Sixteen

  5. Lend Me Your Comb

  6. Your Feet's Too Big

  7. Where Have You Been All My Life?

  8. Mr. Moonlight

  9. A Taste Of Honey

  10. Besame Mucho

  11. 'Till There Was You

  12. Kansas City / Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey

  13. Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves on the Trees)

  14. To Know Her Is To Love Her

  15. Little Queenie

  16. Falling In Love Again

  17. Sheila

  18. Be-Bop-A-Lula

  19. Hallelujah, I Love Her So

  20. Red Sails In the Sunset

  21. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

  22. Matchbox

  23. I'm Talking About You

  24. Shimmy Shake

  25. Long Tall Sally

  26. I Remember You

Background

In December, 1962, The Beatles made their third and final trip to Hamburg Germany. On this trip, the Beatles played a club in Hamburg named the Star Club. The Star Club's sound engineer, Adrian Barber had developed a new sound system complete with a tape recorder that had microphones taped to the original P.A microphones. This way, he could tape bands that performed there. When The Beatles played at the Star Club, their performance was captured on tape.


One of the other performers there Ted Taylor of Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, asked Adrian if he could have the tape of the Beatles performance. Adrian said yes and handed the tape over to Ted.


Fast forward, then to 1977. Lingasong records in England acquires the reels of the Star Club sessions from Ted Taylor and wishes to release them on a two album set. The Beatles tried to stop Lingasong from releasing the albums, but to no avail. And so, The Beatles at The Star Club was released. The sound quality of the tapes wasn't all that good, so radio stations tried not to play any of the tracks on the album. The "sound quality" excuse also transcended onto the record charts as well.


Though not an official Capitol/Apple/EMI album release, the Star Club album should be treated as a piece of musical history of four young, green musicians trying to find their way to stardom via the seedy and rough training grounds of Hamburg, Germany. It was here that the Beatles hardened and polished their act, and it paid dividends upon their arrival back in Liverpool.



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